Laurie Early

Everyday Epiphanies

“It’s the Little Things” is a song I wrote in 2008, but really, I could have written it the same way again in 2012 based on a whole new set of circumstances, or again this month, because all the emotions I was trying to capture in these words still hold true.

I wrote it based on things that had just happened, but all of these things have happened again and again, many times since; coming at me from different angles, different seasons, different attachments within my heart, and yet I still have the same striving to live in the moment and appreciate what is right in front of me.

I know I will continue to cherish and relive all the truly wonderful memories of light reflecting onto the faces of those I hold close to my heart, even if they cannot be in my life right now. They are always in my thoughts.

These are the lyrics; someday soon I will record the song itself. (My closing thoughts are at the bottom of the post.)

Someone asked me once about why I wrote about the “majestic ocean waves” when the song was about “little things” and I believe I replied that if you think about the universe, a wave is a small thing. My reply was based on perspective.

But, in retrospect, because that day I spent walking along the ocean was such a fleeting moment in my life, such a rare thing, my memory of it is a little thing that continues to inspire me. I believe tremendously large things, like waves, or unexpectedly large experiences, give me the feeling of smallness. They help me to remember that I am just a tiny part of a much larger process, a larger community.